Since 2017, when it took control of the Manta port delegation, TPM has paid 5.5 million dollars in royalties to the State.
MANTA, Manabi
A 2% growth in cargo movement will project the port managed by Terminal Portuario de Manta (TPM) by the end of 2021.
For Roberto Salazar, president of TPM, this 2% represents a load recovery compared to the last two years. In 2020, 1,013,000 tons were moved, while for this 2021 it is expected that there will be a closure of 1,033,000 tons.
Only in the vehicle category there was an increase compared to 2020 and 2021. Thus, for example, last year, when COVID-19 generated serious problems worldwide, only 36,000 vehicles arrived in Manta; this year, until October, 48,000 vehicles had entered the port of Manta, and the figure is expected to close at 55,000 vehicles disembarked from this port.
“In solid bulks we are also going to exceed the 485,000 tons that were mobilized in Manta in 2020; in October (of this 2021), they were already at 480,000 tons. It is going to be an important year, with good results, comparatively speaking with the last two years of the pandemic, ”Salazar said.
One of the reasons to maintain and improve the level of cargo was to take security measures, precisely in the face of a pandemic that marked the port movement in the world, highlighted the head of TPM, which even generated an award in recognition of efficient disaster management and building resilience to disasters.
The port of Manta will move 9,000 tons of cargo more than in 2019
Despite this movement, the global container crisis also means that, for example, currently about 400 containers are shipped from this port each month.
Since March 1, 2017, when TPM took over the delegation of the port of Manta for 40 years, the management of port movement has earned the State royalties of $ 5.5 million until November 2021.
Regarding infrastructure, within the first investment phase that TPM has to carry out in improvements to the Manta port terminal, this company has already invested about $ 45 million, of the $ 66 million planned in the first phase of the delegation.
In 40 years, according to the contract, TPM must invest about $ 177 million.
At the moment the repair of the dike is being carried out, but a possible maintenance to the dredging that TPM carried out two years ago is being evaluated.
“It is always necessary to review depths and see the needs of this maintenance apart from the proposed projects,” Salazar said. (I)
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